I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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